It is easy to get used to seeing God from a distance and saying you do it out of humility. In reality, it is just us settling for an imitation. We are satisfied with crumbs while God has a banquet waiting for us. Matt Papa shares his experience with this in Look and Live.

I have found myself in this position; thinking that I was being a proper Christian when I was mainly just filling out my checklist. Often, when we realize we’re doing something like this, we feel alone. Having others admit to the same problem helps that feeling. Papa uses humor and personal examples to relate what he has seen and gone through. Having an author that is wanting to walk by your side instead of sitting on a hill telling you what to do makes it easier to start.

As Papa explains, we have to be that our religiousness does not become our god. What we do as a Christian can turn from being the means to being the end. As he puts it, we start to worship the art instead of the Artist. We should being wanting to look at and understand God’s glory, that is how we will move from just taking up space to living.

I received a free copy of Look and Live from Bethany House in exchange for this review.